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  • The sea has been pounding the rocks mercilessly since dawn.

  • How much lies beneath that deceptively simple word, thesea’,

  • in truth a continuous

  • roiling evolving drama of a billion waves, each one of individual character and rhythm.

  • Up in the cliffs is a cross section through the earth’s autobiography: bands of sandstone,

  • siltstone and shale dating back to the Upper Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago.

  • How long it took for us to make it here.

  • The sea’s rage and threatening power invites us to a redemptive sense of our own smallness

  • and fragility: a bracing vastness that calms and dampens our petty fears and egoisms.

  • - the indifference of nature as a relief from being ourselves.

  • There are gulls overhead and large colonies of razorbills along the perilous cliff-face ledges.

  • Every day they head out eighty miles or more, diving 25 meters deep in to the Atlantic,

  • in search of sprats, cod and herring:

  • our varied co-inhabitants in this otherwise deserted,

  • gaseous universe.

  • We are part of all this.

  • We should no longer say 'I' and 'they' - but we. We should surrender our jealous, frightened

  • attachment to the human perspective - and learn at times to merge with the universe,

  • to identify with its vast, impersonal forces.

  • We are the waters, the sky, the land, the currents.

  • At night, as we fall asleep, we can hear the sea seemingly pulsing through our ears, our veins.

  • A little of nature’s energy is inside all of us - and will continue its relentless beat

  • when we are exhausted and gone, having left less of a mark even than the tiny trapped

  • corals and brachiopods in the rocks; mere frenzied instants in eternity.

The sea has been pounding the rocks mercilessly since dawn.

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如何減少焦慮 (How to be less anxious)

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    kismet 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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